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One of the oldest and greatest of Advent hymns concludes with the haunting lines, Come desire of nations, bind In one the hearts of all mankind Bid thou our sad divisions cease And be thyself our King of Peace. But what does it mean for us to welcome Christ as the “desire of nations”? How do we live rightly as members of particular nations between the two Advents of Christ? Patriotism vs. Nationalism? In a recent article for The Gospel Coalition, evangelical historian Thomas Kidd sounds the alarm over what he calls “Christian nationalism.” Of course, “ism”s can be slippery and seductive terms, promising to relieve us of the moral burden of discriminating between all the goods and evils that are done under the sun, lumping different people and ideas together under abstract “ism”s that we can define ....